Abshiro Soka Halake

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• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, as one that is very familiar with needs assessment, I wish to inform Sen. Sakaja that it is not true that urban poverty is worse than rural poverty. In fact, urban poverty has better chances of one getting some work from the industries and homes in the affluence of the city than in the rural areas. With rural poverty, there are places such as Northern Kenya, for example, Isiolo where there is bareness 150 kilometres in any direction. It is a scientific fact and I can produce it. Let us not mislead. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Report of the Sessional Committee on Delegated Legislation and support the request by my Chairman, Sen. Faki, who has done a fabulous job to ensure that the framework is in place for Equalisation Fund. WE have asked the same questions that people have asked in this House. I raised the question on why we are rushing while we have been on it for so long. If I ever had a doubt, today my answer is on the Floor of this House. There is urgency for this House to approve the ... view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: all the 47 counties be in the marginalised category. Our country development measures have been wanting. There is a historical perspective and context to the issue of the Equalisation Fund. The whole idea around Equalisation Fund was perceived and mooted around the historical injustices that befell the northern part of Kenya, to be specific, and I do not make any apologies. While the rest of Kenya learnt about lockdowns in the pandemic, from 1902, Northern Kenya has been under lockdown, through a colonial legislation that did not allow people from Northern Kenya to access the rest of Kenya. I can ... view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: paralysed, and not approve the Equalisation Fund. The Fund was an answer to a historical injustice of a magnitude that should not ever be existing in the 21st Century is a country that is democratic and has a semblance of the rights of its people. I was just looking at some of the things; that in 2015 the President even offered an apology for historical injustices that the people of Northern Kenya suffered. I could pull out what he said and how the promises were made to ensure that within the constraints and provision of our Constitution, those inequalities will ... view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: capacity and mandate to go and oversight it and ensure that representation as per the Constitution and oversight is conducted. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I urge this House, let us not go down in history as having defeated any effort, channel or bridge that our Constitution has provided the marginalised communities and counties to equalise and fix historical injustices. In 1902, a Kenyan from these marginalised parts of this country had to get a special pass to come to any part of this country. Such was the periphery in which some of these counties lived. However, acknowledging new facts and ... view
• 23 Sep 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to comment on Sen. Omanga’s statement. The issue of extrajudicial killing is close to my heart. I therefore thank Sen. Omanga for not letting the candle go off on this one. Issues to do with extrajudicial killings and police brutality on innocent Kenyans who are exercising their right to picket and demonstrate peacefully is unacceptable. I come from a group of counties that have suffered the most at the hands of police officers on issues to do with extrajudicial killings and with regards to disappearances in utter disregard of ... view
• 23 Sep 2021 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view